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  • 39-year-old Airman with doctorate arrives at AFTAC

    Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, is home to Air Force Basic Military Training, and on any given day, there are more than 7,000 new recruits undergoing the 7-week program. The average age of trainees who undergo the Air Force’s introduction to military service is 21. In October 2022,

  • VCJCS pays historic visit to nuke treaty monitoring center

    For the first time in its decades-long history, the Air Force Technical Applications Center here hosted the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his spouse June 9, 2023. Admiral Christopher W. Grady received several classified briefings about how the Department of Defense’s sole nuclear

  • Airman hailed ‘a hero’ after helping trapped motorist, child

    What was supposed to be a typical drive home turned into an act of heroism for one Airman stationed at Patrick Space Force Base, Fla. Senior Airman Tyler Johnson had just finished his shift as a Subsurface Operations Manager for the 22nd Surveillance Squadron at the Air Force Technical Applications

  • Breaking Ground for Fallen Airmen

    Since 1947, the mission of long range detection has been the responsibility of what is now known as the Air Force Technical Applications Center, and over the course of those 75 years, 81 Airmen – civilian and military alike – have died while in active government service. Prior to moving into their

  • CTBTO Executive Secretary visits AFTAC

    The executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization visited the Air Force Technical Applications Center Oct. 25 to learn more about the intricate and important partnership the two agencies share. Dr. Robert Floyd took over as CTBTO’s top leader in August 2021 and in

  • The Art of Sign in a Secure Environment

    There is an old saying that goes, “Actions speak louder than words.”  For one employee at the Air Force Technical Applications Center, certain actions are executed at just the right volume. Le Chen, a statistician with the 21st Surveillance Squadron here, was hired in August to work at the